I feel that I should get an "Insider" title for living in Vancouver, even though I haven't contributed anything yet. It should also be 36pt Impact font and it should steadily shift back and forth between black and red.

So are there title ranks for posting and posting well? I've always liked that kind of thing. Especially titles based on user feedback. (An anonymous rating system where users can boost the "rep" of people whose posts they find helpful or interesting.)

So far we have 3 "Alien Squid Monster" with Vynson, Soupdragon and CLINT FLICKER and one "Thermodynamic Miracle" with Curiosity Inc. (golf clap)

Although it will be a while until someone has 300 posts, we will need more ranks. The best bet is adding ranks at the 100's up (300, 400, 500, etc.) Trouble is, what is higher than "Thermodynamic Miracle" in the Watchmen world? I was thinking "Intrinsic Field Manipulator" for 300? Plus, I just have "Newbie" for 0-9 so we can distinguish those folks who signed up and never posted, or signed up and trolled once or twice. That's why there's no Watchmen-esque rank there.

Any ideas for new rank titles? Any comments on existing rank names and how many posts are needed to attain them? Let me know.

_________________Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music - George Carlin

Well, DD, you've got your work cut out for you. Over at the Vivarium, I created rankings for every ten posts, just to keep things interesting... but I ran a bit dry and have a couple of high post count regulars who are stranded in the Casablanca of post changes with no letters of transit in sight.

I also slid in a few one time rankings that only last for a post or two... and some that continue over the course of several posts.

Most are Watchmen oriented in an obvious way... some not so obvious... some related to V4V... some to Alan Moore himself... and some can only be chalked up to my special brand of delirium. At any rate...

- Pagliacci - Strangeness and Charm- The Light of 2 Hours Past - Tyger Tyger- You're locked up in here with me. - A Companion to Owls - Old Ghost - Thermodynamic Miracle - Pyramid Deliveries Freight Coordinator - I Did It 35 Minutes Ago - Calamari To Go- Somethin' From the Crank File - Dining at Rafael's- Minuteman - Hiding In Moloch's Fridge - Bartender at the Bestiary - Gunga Diner DeliveryPerson- KnotTop - Pale Horse Ticket Scalper - Vietnamese Manservant - Typesetter for the New Frontiersman - Bosun Ridley - Lounging against a sparkhydrant reading comics - Possible Sire of Walter Kovacs - Missing Writer - Veidt Inc. Logo Designer (Retired to Caymans) - Laurie Juspeczyk's Gynecologist - Dog Carcass in Alley - Toilet Scrubber at Larkhill Relocation Camp...Damn...wrong book - Still Working the Kitty Genovese Case - Holding Up Picture of Twilight Lady With One Hand... - Some nice straightforward brutality... - Informing Laurie 90 seconds ago.- It's these tachyons...- ...they're muddling things up...- I'd better follow him inside.- Following this through to the bitter end - Joking of course - Spooning with Laurie by Veidt's pool. - Pouting in the Orrery - This is the time. These are the feelings. - Just please let me eat my lunch in peace. - A pretty butterfly - KT-28 Pusher - Gila Flats Safety Engineer - 500 posts and all I get is this lame-ass ranking? - Yep, that's all. -- Vynson - Oh Daniel. Daniel, Daniel, Daniel... my brother, you are older than me, do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal, your eyes are blind... - Making out with Hira Manish below decks. - What's that counter? - Nothing, Love. Nothing's wrong. - Hold me. - You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. - Popping a cap in Veidt's ass. - Wow! I've never seen this ranking before. Perhaps there is no predestination? - What happens if I just stay down here and screw all your predictions, huh? - Jon? I said 'what happens then?' - If you'd only relax enough to see the whole continuum, life's pattern or lack of one, then you'd understand my perspective. - Cooped up in OwlShip with Rorschach wishing like hell that he would apply some of the Nostalgia he stole from me - Doing what has to be done in men's room - Busy winding my dumb ass grappling cord back onto the spool - Trying to decide if I should buy new copy of New Frontiersman or a new CO2 cartridge for grappling gun - I just wish he wouldn't stare at me like that. - Having a wet dream...until the damn atomic bomb goes off! - Some nice straightforward brutality... - Wondering how much time Vynson spends coming up with these stupid rankings. - Hiring my own killer through a third party - Desk Clerk at Rum Runner - Well, I've seen worse scenarios. - CAUTION! Do not exceed stated dose - 6 2 1 8 6 - Gazing into the abyss...hey, what are you looking at? You looking at me? I'm talking to you, Abyss - Sketching the beak structure - Comforting Aline in the back of the cab. - Chillin' on Mars lookin' at a pic of me and my ex...what a bitch. - Bartender at Saigon O.C. What a friggin' mess! - Oh, how the ghost of you clings... - The light is taking me to pieces. - Your predicament has been noticed and the situation is being attended to. - Downloading pirated MP3s of Linette Paley - Robert Deschaines fails yet again to win NY Lotto - Wondering whatever happened to the Furnesse family dog - The highest possible ranking. This is it. There is no more. - Just Kidding. It never ends. - Aging more noticeably every day. - Here's five bucks. It's more'n you're worth. - Avoiding the real horror - Filibustered against the Keene Act - This is a man in his forties... - The End is Nigh. - Lugging Byron Lewis' drunk ass around - Eating a ball of Hashish in the desert - What do you think I am? - Not on the list with Wally Weaver and Janey Slater - Off hook for now. - Society's only protection - Sewing my Captain Carnage costume - Eating cold beans straight from the can - Old Ghost - Stumbling down the stairs of Air Force 2 - Trying to change my life with the Veidt Method - Asking Questions in the Underworld - Has a date to take Aline to Pale Horse Concert - IT guy at Dimesional Developments. Ooops. - 800 Posts? Damn, I spend a lot of time here! - A Chip off the Old Concrete Block - Poser Troll - Janitor at MSG. Damn, what a friggin' mess! - Trying to put a brave face on this - Very disappointed - In charge of blowing up that dumbass Gunga Diner elephant - Drinking Coke out of green glass bottles - Offering Canadian Love - Knows where Senator Keene is buried - Working the Darklyghter Genovese Case - Working on Porno Pirate movie called Tales of the Pink Freighter - Unable to climb a rope while wearing a latex bag on my face - Wearing hydrogen atom earrings. - Still thinks Gloria Long was behind it all - Sandwiched between Gloria Long and Hira Manish - Took care of Janey between Sept and Nov 1959...if you know what I mean. - Have done best to make this legible - Named my cats Fred and Barney - Walking around my basement naked - Job bearable, but unpleasant - Borne on the naked backs of murdered men - Sometimes I feel as if I've been here all the time - Looking for filler for New Frontiersman... hey what's this old Journal...Gross... there's blood on it. I'll run something else. - A Thousand Posts! Wow! - The multiplying villainies of nature - Strength through purity. Purity through antibiotics - Just bought 600 cases of dominoes. Now to pick a code name. - Listening to Martha and the Vendellas on the duke box - These resettlement camps don't run themselves, do they? - Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici - A man of wealth and taste - Endeavors to ignore the chains that he walks in to his knees - Extra in The Salt Flats - I'm not entirely satisfied with your performance lately. - Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible - No! My face.. Give it Back! - certainly not discussing heroin and child pornography - Playing with my Ozymandias “action figure” ahem. - Dropping Captain Carnage down an elevator shaft - Wishing I’d brought an umbrella to Blake’s funeral…cough…cough - Pissed at Jon for staring at that little Jupiter tramp - Watching Enola Gay and the Little Boys - Pissing on Hollis’s retirement plans - Surrendering in person to Dr Manhattan - Paying for it with Sylvia Kovaks - Would’ve goddamn gone down to help Kitty Genovese - Jacking my steering column up on the roof - Shitting up Karnak with sugar wrappers - Getting F'ed in the A at Sing Sing... so that's why they call him the Big Figure. - And you thought Jon had blue balls - Some nice straightforward brutality... - Never been to Spain, but kind of like the music. - Hanging out in Karnak 'cause only alien assholes have their fortress of solitude at the NORTH pole. - We've replaced the fine coffee we normally serve on the OwlShip with Folger's Crystals. Will these tenement fire victims be able to tell the difference? - Trapped between two layers of heat and pressure-sensitive latex - Worshipping my snake - Voted for Nixon... again - Nixon? Who the hell would vote for Nixon when Redford's a runnin'?? - Saw Walter Kovacs renting SHOWGIRLS down at Blockbuster - Read the Cliff's Notes to Watchmen rather than the comic - I've seen the face of armegeddon, and, not surprisingly, it looks a bit like a duck. Which doesn't really inspire compromise. - Just what the hell is a hodge? Let alone a UK Hodge... - Very disappointed with Vyn's rankings lately. - Just now appreciating the fact that Veidt's Vietnamese servants must have played some role in orchestrating Blake's death... after the incident that gave him his scar. - Hurm - Talking to Alan Moore about Watchmen II: Back in Silk - Eddie and Sally's OTHER love child - Invented clumping kitty litter for gigantic lynxes - Waiting on Vynson to fix my friggin' rank already - Discovered that the Silk Spectre outfit fits me! - I never made it without biting... go ask Mr. Owl - Killing groundhogs for sport... oops...wrong site. carry on... Watchmen! Yay...jolly good. - Saving Lost Girls for a rainy day... if you know what I mean... - Has a pair of briefs made of pressure sensitive latex